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Saying he must follow the law, a Broward judge sentenced Lionel Tate to life in prison Friday for a murder he said was "cold, callous and indescribably cruel" and slammed the prosecutor for offering to seek clemency for the 14-year-old. But that effort was already moving forward Friday as Gov. Jeb Bush signaled he would be willing to hear a clemency request for Tate, who was found guilty of the 1999 murder of Tiffany Eunick, 6, when he was 12. Broward County Judge Joel T. Lazarus rejected requests from the defense to reduce the verdict or order a new trial, saying the prosecution proved its case. There were no legal grounds for him to impose anything less than the mandatory...

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Saying he must follow the law, a Broward judge sentenced Lionel Tate to life in prison Friday for a murder he said was "cold, callous and indescribably cruel" and slammed the prosecutor for offering to seek clemency for the 14-year-old.
But...

Saudi Arabia's new monarch isn't wasting time. Since assuming the throne Jan. 23, King Salman has elevated some of his closest relatives and sidelined previous power-brokers, tightened decision-making and promised lavish payouts designed to win early...

KIEV, Ukraine The fighting parties in Ukraine should cease fire for three days to allow the evacuation of civilians from a crossroad town, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said as it also reported that two people were killed in...

CAIRO An Egyptian court on Monday condemned 183 men to hang for the lynchings of 11 police officers by Islamist rioters in August 2013. The condemned were found guilty of an attack on a police station on the western outskirts of Cairo in apparent...

A reporter for Al-Jazeera English was released from an Egyptian prison and deported Sunday after more than a year behind bars, but his two Egyptian colleagues remained jailed in a case widely condemned as a sham by human-rights groups. Australian Peter...

Facing sustained international criticism over its human rights record, Egypt on Sunday freed Peter Greste, an Australian correspondent for Al Jazeera, who was one of three journalists for the Qatar-based broadcaster jailed more than a year ago on...

A leading rights group says authorities in Saudi Arabia have delayed the planned flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam for a third straight week in the face of growing international pressure against the punishment.
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Cuba policy a betrayal
Any visitor to Cuba, by spending money there, is aiding and abetting the Cuban government to continue its hold on power. Yes, you can get a cheap vacation, but you would be benefiting from the misery of those who have endured...

On Saturday, 80-year-old Rita Lucey will be ordained as a priest — and excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
Lucey joins a growing movement of women who, while operating outside the Roman Catholic Church, contend they are not leaving the church but...

Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram.Mike Omeri, the government...

Why should the world care about Nigeria more than its own president does?
That sounds harsh, but it expresses a painful truth. Muslim terrorists killed 17 people in Paris earlier this month after storming the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. At the same...

Boko Haram, Nigeria's homegrown Islamic extremist group, is increasing the ferocity and tempo of its attacks, destabilizing Africa's most populous nation as it prepares for elections.Girls as young as 10 are being used as suicide bombers. There have...

The Sun editorial, "Horror in Peshawar" (Dec.16), describes the Taliban attack in Pakistan that left 140 children dead and states, "What happened there can only be described as an atrocity committed by murderous criminals." Why...

When Cari Tuna and her future husband, Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder, decided they would give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to charity, they thought of asteroids.
Or more specifically, the risk of one slamming to Earth and...

A long-held Al Qaeda suspect at Guantanamo Bay was sent home to Kuwait early Wednesday after U.S. officials concluded he does not pose a threat to the United States.
Fawzi Odah, 37, was never charged or put on trial during his 13 years in the U.S....

Israel said late Wednesday that it would deny entry to representatives of the U.N. Human Rights Council who are investigating potential war crimes committed during the summer’s 50-day war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
While widely expected,...

Gunshots pierced the air as an angry crowd threw bottles outside the Ferguson Police Department in suburban St. Louis after a grand jury on Monday decided not to indict a white officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen.The police lobbed...

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, committed human rights abuses as they sought to quell mostly peaceful protests that erupted after an officer killed an unarmed black teenager, an international human rights organization said in a report released on Friday....

Rejecting pleas from human rights groups, Iran on Saturday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a man she had said was trying to rape her.
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 27, was hanged at dawn, the official IRNA news agency reported. In a protracted court...

South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people, most of them school children, dead or missing, in a trial of 15 crew who abandoned ship before it sank.Lee Joon-seok, 68,...